CDPH, CalHHS Issue Statement Supporting Boosters for Children Ages 5-11
This is a press release from the California Department of Public Health:
[Recently], California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, and Director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a joint statement supporting the recommendation by the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices (ACIP), and the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize use of a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11 at least 5 months after completing their primary series.
In additional vaccine booster news, the CDC strengthened its recommendation that those 12 and older who are immunocompromised and those 50 and older should receive a second booster dose at least four months after their first booster dose.
“COVID-19 vaccines are the best way to prevent hospitalization and serious illness, and data has shown that California’s vaccination efforts have saved tens of thousands of lives. The Omicron surge and its infectious subvariants have shown that children are also vulnerable, with their case rates and hospitalizations increasing across California – we support the recommendations of our federal and state partners to authorize and recommend the use of a booster dose for children ages 5 and up. It’s important to get kids vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible.”
“Additionally, over the past two months we have seen steady increases in cases, and more recently an increase in hospitalizations in California. While older Americans have the highest coverage of any age group of first booster doses, most older Americans received their last dose (either their primary series or their first booster dose) many months ago, leaving many who are vulnerable without the protection they may need to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Whether it is your first booster, or your second, if you haven’t had a vaccine dose since the beginning of December 2021 and you are eligible, now is the time to get one.”
The State’s SMARTER Plan has maintained the operational readiness to immediately offer this additional boost in protection of eligible Californians. CDPH recommends that everyone over the age of 5 receive their primary series and booster dose. Vaccines are safe and effective for children, and completion of the primary series and boosters remain the safest way to prevent serious illness including MIS-C, long COVID, hospitalization and death from COVID-19, including of our most vulnerable.
Parents can find a vaccine for their child at myturn.ca.gov or by calling 1-833-422-4255. Visit Vaccinate All 58 to learn more about the safe and effective vaccines available for all Californians aged 5 and older or talk to your child’s health care provider.
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Hmmmm. But it’s being said the vaccines are not effective anymore.
You got it.
These people are full of shit…
What’s full is warehouses /freezers with deteriorating product that no one wants. And for good reason. What a poop show.
What’s actually increasing, and alarminly on the rise is vaccinated individuals contracting and mutating among themselves cool new vaccine evasive variants, and subsequent freak cardiopulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis events in everyone! Most concerning in young previously healthy people, males especially. Of course doctors swear up and down that it is * not at all linked to the experimental mRNA spike protein vaccines.* And then they still have the gaul to order boosters? Eff no!
I think its time to go back to the drawing board, CDPH, CALHHS, and the rest of you poser ” health” tzars too! What a joke.
Spot on. The “vaccine” cult will not be happy. Whereyat vax trolls? How’s those troponin levels?
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I haven’t heard anything about that. I mean I’m sure some people are saying it, we have people saying the earth is flat.
as long as there is money to be made… don’t question “the Science”!
Sure changed your tune…
How can they say it’s saved lives? They have no clue how the individuals would have done without the vax. Besides, wether you had the shots or not everyone is catching the latest strain. I am not vacillated, caught it and was fine within 48 hrs. Kids barely realize they caught it. Why put a chemical into thier system if they don’t need it?
We do have an idea how people would have done without the vaccine. It comes from comparing how people who were vaccinated did versus how people who were unvaccinated did.
Who would have thought our own government would become dangerous drug pushers?
while I think it’s downright stupid to suggest that promoting vaccination is akin to being a drug pusher . . .
perhaps you’re not aware of the Iran-Contra scandal, and the associated CIA operations.
I have no problem with vaccinations, but these vaccines are suspect at best. Vaccines provide protection to a disease and eradicate said disease. Think polio.
These vaccines are not performing as traditional vaccines and there’s no telling what resistant strains are going to come from those that took the vaccine and are still getting sick and shedding virus.
Fauci should be arrested and incarcerated immediately.
As for “Iran-Contra”… showing your age there ain’tcha? If you’re gonna preach whataboutism, come up with something a little more recent and relevant.
I am sure I read the vaccine is only 37% effective in 5-11 years. 37% is not worth endorsing, in fact, vaccine could deem more harmful than an optimistic 37%. Shame on cdph, they will surely lose some support over this decision.
It’s not the 37%, effective, it’s that they reduced the odds of infection by around 30%, and reduced the risk of requiring medical treatment by around 47% for those children who do become infected into 5 to 11 age group.
The risk is literally fraction of 1%!! And then more or less exclusively in obese, diabetic, asthmatic or otherwise disabled children. The fear needs to be replaced with some perspective!
IMO blanketing the entire population with an experimental vaccine especially when the risk for most is infinitesimal, was never a good idea and has in fact made things much worse.
Yeah, stay away from our kids you monsters
Thankfully the state legislature isn’t pushing vax for kids to attend school next year. This propaganda is crazy, but that would have been a step too far.
Well said.